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AssigneeHCRI Technologies International, LLC
InventorDavid A. Blank
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A process is provided for enhancing homogeneous combustion and improving ignition in rotary and reciprocating piston IC engines. Physical embodiments supporting this process have secondary chambers embedded in the cylinder periphery to initiate radical ignition (“RI”) species generation in an earlier cycle for use in the main chamber combustion of a later cycle. These communicate with the main chamber via small conduits. Coordinated with the progressions facilitated by these secondary chambers are novel control measures for regulating the quantities of RI species ultimately generated for and conveyed to the later cycle. The pre-determinable presence of RI species so supplied then alters or adds controlled variety to the dominant chain-initiation reactions of the main combustion ignition mechanism of the later cycle. This presence does so by lowering both the heat and the fuel ratios required for starting and sustaining combustion. While this presence dominates in RI mode embodiments, this presence can also assist ignition and combustion in embodiments that are instead dominated by the spark ignition (“SI”) and compression ignition (“CI”) modes. The process results in improved combustion with increased efficiencies, decreased emissions and a wider range of fuel tolerances.
A method for controlling combustion of a fuel within a cyclic process, the method comprising:
A process for controlling combustion of a fuel during a combustion cycle within a combustion chamber of an engine, the process comprising:
A process for controlling combustion of a fuel during a combustion cycle within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the process comprising:
A system for an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives a mixture of a fuel and air for combustion and a work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said system comprising:
A combustion control system for an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives a mixture of a fuel and air for combustion and a work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said combustion control system comprising:
A combustion control system for an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives a mixture of a fuel and air for combustion and a work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said combustion control system comprising:
A combustion control system for an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives a mixture of a fuel and air for combustion and a work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said combustion control system comprising:
An engine that combusts a mixture of a fuel and air and that has combustion cycles, the engine comprising:
A system for controlling reduction of required fuel concentrations relative to oxygen concentrations for an ignition of a mixture of a fuel and air in an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives a said mixture of said fuel and air for combustion and a work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said combustion control system comprising:
A system for controlling reduction of heat required for an ignition of a mixture of a fuel and air in an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives said mixture of said fuel and air for combustion and a work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said combustion control system comprising:
A process for reducing required fuel concentrations relative to oxygen concentrations to ignite a fuel during a combustion cycle within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the process comprising:
A method for reducing heat required to ignite a fuel within a cyclic process, the method comprising:
A process for reducing heat required to ignite a fuel during a combustion cycle within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the process comprising:
A system for controlling reduction of required fuel concentrations relative to oxygen concentrations for an ignition of a mixture of a fuel and air in an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives said mixture of said fuel and air for combustion and at least one work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said system comprising:
A system for controlling reduction of heat required for an ignition of a mixture of a fuel and air in an internal combustion engine, the engine having at least one combustion chamber that receives said mixture of said fuel and air for combustion and at least one work-power producing component that moves responsive to combustion, the engine being configured to produce successive combustion cycles, with each combustion cycle including intake, main-compression, combustion, power-expansion and exhaust phases, said system comprising:
A method for controlling combustion of a fuel within a cyclic process, the method comprising:
A method for controlling combustion of a fuel within a cyclic process, the method comprising:
A method for controlling combustion of a fuel within a cyclic process, the method comprising:
An engine that combusts a fuel and air mixture and that has combustion cycles, the engine comprising:
An engine that combusts a fuel and air mixture and that has combustion cycles, the engine comprising:
An engine that combusts a mixture of a fuel and air and that has combustion cycles, the engine comprising:
An engine that combusts a mixture of a fuel and air and that has combustion cycles, the engine comprising:
A process for reducing heat required for an ignition of a quantity of a fuel during a combustion cycle within a combustion chamber of an engine, the process comprising:
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